Murder, My Dear Watson
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Other Ballad novels include the New York Times Notable Books: If I Ever Return Pretty Peggy-O, The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter and The Ballad of Frankie Silver, a novel based on the true story of a young mountain woman hanged for murder in 1833, and The Song Catcher, which traces a ballad through a frontier family from colonial times to the present.
McCrumb’s honors include: Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature Award; Chaffin Award for Achievement in Southern Literature; Plattner Award for Short Story; Virginia Book of the Year nomination; Best Appalachian Novel; SEBA Best Novel nomination; St. Andrews’ Flora MacDonald Award for Achievement in the Arts by a Woman of Scots Heritage; and the Sherwood Anderson Short Story Award. Her works, published in more than ten languages, are studied in both the United States and abroad, and she was the first writer-in-residence at King College in Tennessee. In 2001 she served as fiction writer-in-residence at the WICE Conference in Paris.
Jon L. Breen is the author of six novels, more than eighty short stories, and two Edgar Award-winning critical volumes. His most recent books are The Drowning Icecube and Other Stories (Five Star), the second edition of Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction (Scarecrow), and the anthology Sleuths of the Century (Carroll & Graf), edited with Ed Gorman. He also contributes “The Jury Box” review column to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
Carolyn Wheat is known for her series of legal mysteries involving Cass Jameson, although recently she has turned her hand to editing short-story collections, including the recent anthology Women before the Bench. She has taught mystery writing at the New School in New York City, and legal writing at the Brooklyn Law School. An Adventuress of Sherlock Holmes, her investiture is The Penang Lawyer (Hound).
Daniel Stashower is the author of the Edgar-winning Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, and a member of the Baker Street Irregulars.
Anne Perry writes, “I was born in Blackheath, London, in 1938. From an early age, I enjoyed reading and two of my favorite authors were Lewis Carroll and Charles Kingsley. It was always my desire to write, but it took twenty years before I produced a book which was accepted for publication. That was The Cater Street Hangman, which came out in 1979.1 chose the Victorian era by accident, but I am happy to stay with it, because it was a remarkable time in British history, full of extremes, of poverty and wealth, social change, expansion of empire, and challenging ideas. In all levels of society there were the good and the bad, the happy and the miserable.”
Malachi Saxon was born in 1944 in London, England, and studied medicine, as well as philosophy and psychology, in Oxford. He went to Rhodesia in Africa and after serving in the Army, worked at a variety of medical posts, including lecturing on anatomy at the university. Now retired, he lives in the Scottish Highlands with his wife and children. His principal sport is rifle shooting, having won the top prize, the President’s Medal, in Zimbabwe. Lately, however, he spends more time playing golf, to keep his son, a budding Tiger Woods, company.
Loren D. Estleman is the author of fifty books, including the Amos Walker detective series, several westerns, and the Detroit historical mystery series, including Whiskey River, Motown, King of the Corner, and Edsel His first Sherlock Holmes pastiche, Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula, has been in print for twenty-four years.
Barry Day is the author of books on Noël Coward, Oscar Wilde, and P. G. Wodehouse. He was one of the original team that rebuilt Shakespeare’s Globe Playhouse on London’s Bankside. He has published five Sherlock Holmes pastiche novels.
Lenore Carroll has published five novels and over a score of short stories, usually set in the historical American west. Her last novel, One Hundred Girls’ Mother, told the story of Thomasina McIntire, who was a missionary to women in nineteenth-century Chinatown of San Francisco. She teaches writing and composition in Kansas City area colleges. Her 1988 novel, Annie Chambers, based on the life of a Kansas City madam during the Victorian era, was nominated for a Spur Award by Western Writers of America. She currently works for an environmental nonprofit organization.
Philip A. Shreffler, a former editor of The Baker Street Journal, and author of two mystery novels about the Baker Street Irregulars (The War of the Worlds Mystery and The Twentieth Century Limited Mystery), lives in Connecticut.
Christopher Redmond works at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is author of In Bed with Sherlock Holmes and A Sherlock Holmes Handbook, and Web master of Sherlockian.net.
Jon Lellenberg is the Baker Street Irregulars historian and the U.S agent for the Estate of Dame Jean Conan Doyle.